Safety-loop.



E. A. NELSON.

SAFETY LOOP. APPLICATION FILED 1330.7, 1911.

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SAFETY-LOOP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 15, 1914.

Application filed December 7, 1911. Serial No. 664,363.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELZA A. NELSON, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Dexter, in the county of Meigs and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Shaft-Loops, of which the following is a specification. The object of this invention is to provide an improved construction of shaft loop for harness which shall be of economical and durable form, neat appearance and easy application and removal.

The invention is embodied in the construction herein shown and described and then pointed out in the claims appended to the description.

In the accompanying drawing-Figure 1 is a side view of the invention showing the same applied to a fraction of a shaft member. Fig. 2 is an edge view, the shaft being insection. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the device on the line ww Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is an edge view illustrating how the parts are manipulated to release the back strap. Fig. 5 is a detail of the shaft stop.

The main ring or loop 6 is formed of sheet metal, the metal being bent in the ring portion to shallow U-form so as to provide an interior annular channel or cavity. The metal of the ring is extended upward and one part bent over the other to form a shank 6 within which is secured a loop 7 to receive the hold back strap 8. The flanges of the channeled ring are notched out as seen at 6 near the junction of the loop 7 there'- with. The outer side of the main ring 6 is provided with two short studs or pins 6 to receive the billet 9 of the belly strap and a long stud or pin 6 to receive the back strap 10 that is connected, as well understood, to the saddle. The outer side of the main ring 6 is also provided with a permanent metallic loop 6 having an opening of suflicient size to receive both the billet 9 and back strap 10. The interior annular cavity of the main ring is provided with a thick leather lining 11 consisting of a short thick piece of leather fitting in said. cavity, but when in place leaving a small space in the ring near its top. Said lining is flexible and can be bent out of normal position for the purpose to be presently explained. The character 12 designates 'a movable loop projecting beyond the strap bent around the outer side of the main ring on the long pin 6 so that it cannot be drawn ofl, as best illustrated in Fig. 2. But after the device as a whole has been drawn off the shaft the end of the leather lining can be pressed inward and the loop 12 with its pin 12 drawn down between the leather lining and the main ring thereby permitting the back strap to be pulled off the long pin 6, after which said strap can be easily drawn out, all as clearly depicted in Fig. 4:. It will be observed that the back strap 10 is held flexed between the loops 7 and 12 and that this aids in preventing the billet 9 from bulging off the pin 6.

The shaft is provided with a metal stop consisting of a curved base 13 fastened to the shaft and an upwardly projecting flange 13 at one end thereof. When the shaft loop is in place on the shaft the metal stop takes the strain of the shaftloop when the horse is backing.

Each side of the harness is, of course, equipped with the device as described. It is evident from the construction set forth that with these devices the matter of hitching and unhitching is but a matter of a few moments. It is also evident that when the tugs or traces are released the horse can walk out from between the shafts.

What I claim is:

1. In a shaft loop, the combination of a hold back loop, a channeled shaft encircling ring connected therewith said ring having notches in its walls or flanges, a leather lin ing of open ring form seated within the channel of the ring, studs projecting from said ring, a permanent loop also projecting from the ring, and a movable loop also proj ecting from said ring adjacent the hold back loop and arranged to be removably held in said notches "by the shaft, substantially as described.

2. In a shaft loop, in combination, a chanlining and the ring, substantially as and for neled metallic ring, a flexible leather lining the purpose explained.

therefor studs projecting from said ring a permanent loop also projecting from sziid N f o ring and a sliding loop connected with said WVitnesses:

ring and projecting therefrom, said loop BENJ. FINOKEL, being adapted to be slid between the leather GERTRUDE LOWRY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, I). C. 

